Tuesday, June 14, 2011

'A' THE FOURTH RAIKAGE'S BACKGROUND,APPEARANCES AND PERSONALITY

FOURTH RAIKAGE'S BACKGROUND-A is the son of the Third Raikage. At some point in the past, a group of children were gathered inorder to determine who would be A's tag-partner in keeping with a long-standingKumogakure tradition of the Raikage having atag-team partner. Only one of the children wereable to successfully match A's power and use the Double Lariat on a training dummy. As a result the child was given the name " B", and A stated that they would be brothers from that day on. [2] He and B would eventually be teamed togetheron a mission with Killer B's cousin, the jinchūriki of the Eight-Tails. While on the mission, he told Athat Killer B would need something to fill the voidthat would be created if he was chosen as thebeast's next jinchūriki. Some time later B's cousin lost control of thebeast and it went on a rampage. A was madepart of a special team tasked with subduing the rampaging Eight-Tails. When the beast impaled Motoi's father with its horn, A cut it off. After B became the beast's jinchūriki, A, remembering what B's cousin had said to him, tries his best tofill that apparent void. During the Third Shinobi World War , A would clash with Minato Namikaze for the first time. Before Minato retreated he recognised Killer B asthe jinchūriki of the Eight-Tails and told A that next they met it would be to put the title of"Kage" on the line and also offered A the adviceof making sure his brother knew who he wasbefore becoming neither human nor jinchūriki. They would clash many more times after that. Awas once even told by Jiraiya that he believed Minato was the "Child of Prophecy". [3] When A succeeded his father in the title of Raikage, heforbade Killer B from fully transforming into theEight-Tails.

FOURTH RAIKAGE'S APPEARANCE-He is a tall dark-skinned man with a largemuscular build, with his white hair (blond in theanime) combed back , a small moustache andbeard. He has pointed canines and his top lip alsohas a darker hue than the bottom one and he hasa mole over his right eyebrow; traits he inherited from his father. During his fight with Sasuke Uchiha, he amputated his left forearm after it was burned by the flames of Amaterasu. Unlike other Kage, A seems to wear his Kagecloak and hat on a regular basis without a shirtunderneath, further displaying his hulkingphysique. He has black Fūma Shuriken tattoos on both shoulders. Up until his fight with Sasuke, hehad gold bangle bracelets on each wrist whichhave protrusions that can jut out when heattacks. Though he still wore the bracelet on hisright arm after amputating the left arm at theSummit and even when he convened the second meeting of the Kage, since the Fourth Shinobi World War started however, he has stopped wearing it altogether.[4] He also wears a gold belt around his waist with a boar's faceengraved in the centre. All of these aspectscombined give him the appearance of aprofessional wrestler.

FOURTH RAIKAGE'S PERSONALITY-A is very caring and protective towards hisyounger brother, despite Killer B's status as a jinchūriki, and wept at the idea of his younger brother being captured by Akatsuki. However,when Killer B's ploy to use the affair to have avacation was discovered, A was furious, andswore to punish his little brother for it. He claims,that as the Raikage, he has made peace with theidea of having to kill his brother if the situation ever called for it.[5] He is also headstrong and somewhat easilyaggravated, smashing a desk apart when newsof his brother being captured arrived. He alsoseemingly has very little patience as seen whenhe burst through the window of his office toattend the Kage Summit, smashed the table at the Summit when the conversation was deviatingand smashing through a wall to go after Sasuke.His assistant implied that he has is prone to suchactions whenever her was in that mental state. A also has a very stern and decisive personality,as seen when he was seemingly unaffected byNaruto's pleas for Sasuke's life. In his eyes,respect and strength mean everything in theninja world, and the weak should and will becrushed. This correlates with his philosophy that a ninja should never compromise or bow downin front of another ninja. A has also been shownto be very suspicious of the other ninja villages,accusing all of them of working with Akatsukiand questioning their loyalties. In battle, A isshown to be physically brutal, as he uses extreme physical force to devastate hisopponents, and is willing to sacrifice a limb,rather than lose a chance to defeat his opponent. When he learned his brother was alive, hisattitude had mostly calmed down since his firstappearance. He spoke with civility with the othermembers of the Alliance, and kept his cool during Tsunade's outburst. However, after learning that Akatsuki resurrected his father, A becameenraged again. Like his brother, the Raikage is acompassionate person as well, as he reassuredDarui about his left arm that he lost and told him not to blame himself.[6] A also holds strongly to the belief that thejinchūriki is not an individual but instead is a tool of the village they live in and its Kage and assuch, has no right to make decisions for themselves.